District 9

A bunch of us went to see District 9 at the theater the other night. I liked it with some reservations. There were a lot more bodily fluids than I was expecting, and this is compared to Drag Me to Hell. I appreciated the irony of aliens coming to South Africa and being treated as an unwanted people who are treated as subhuman by the locals who herd them into slums where they live separately from the humans. The story centers around a bureaucrat who starts out as the worst kind of bigot who gradually becomes more sympathetic throughout the course of the movie. The start of the movie is a lot more tense than I had expected, almost painfully so. Then it sort of morphs into an action movie, which helped to relieve the tension. Overall, good flick but perhaps too intense for some.